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Seminar 3, Monday 24 February 2025, 5.00pm – 6.45pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
Trump vs Putin: Security in the Age of Populism
The re-election of President Trump and the rise of populist politicians in Europe creates new challenges for Western security in general and for the task of policing nuclear proliferation in particular. In the UK, the Government is producing a new Strategic Defence Review. Yet across NATO, new thinking must accelerate. But looming above the immediate crisis of Ukraine, tensions around Taiwan and the conflict in the Middle East, is the challenge of the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the question of how we advance multilateral disarmament.
Speakers:
Lord Michael Bates has a 30 + year career in politics. He was first elected to Parliament in 1992 for Langbaurgh and served as a whip and Paymaster General under PM John Major. Following the 1997 election Michael studied for his first degree, an MBA at Saïd Business School, after which he worked for the consultancy services division of Oxford Analytica. Michael served on the Business Advisory Board of the Said Business School for twelve years. Returning to Parliament via the House of Lords in 2008 Michael then served as a Minister of State in the Home Office and DfID. Michael recently completed a 3 year Leave of Absence from the House of Lords during which time he has completed a further two Masters degrees at the LSE and Winchester and is just about to submit his PhD thesis on the ‘International Nuclear Weapons Order’ at Durham University.
Edward is a recently retired senior RAF officer (Air Marshal/3*) whose early years were spent as a fast-jet pilot, but whose later career in higher command positions has seen him specialise in defence policy, the command and management of military operations, and, based in the Ministry of Defence, cross-government coordination on a range of portfolios, including crisis management duties via COBR meetings. Amongst them were the Director General of Joint Force Development and the Defence Academy (DG JFD), the director of military operations (ACDS(Ops)), and the effective deputy chief of the RAF in MOD (ACAS). He has been on the boards of the RAF, CAA, and Defence Nuclear Enterprise. He is a trustee of the Imperial War Museum.
Professor Roy Allison was awarded his doctorate as a student of St Antony’s in 1983 and was an ESRC Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the college during 1983-86.
He returned to St Antony’s in 2011 as University Lecturer in the International Relations of Russia, Eastern Europe and Eurasia and became Professor of Russian and Eurasian International Relations in 2014.
He was previously Reader in International Relations at the London School of Economics. He has also held positions at the universities of Southampton and Birmingham (the Centre for Russia and East European Studies), has been a visiting scholar at Moscow State University and the Brookings Institution, was the Head of the Russia and Eurasia Programme of Chatham House (The Royal Institute of International Affairs) during 1993-2005, and a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre of International Studies, Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Oxford, 2001-05. He has acted as Specialist Advisor to the House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee and Defence Committee and the House of Lords European Union Committee. Professor Allison’s research focuses in particular on the international relations, foreign and security policies of Russia, Ukraine, Central Asia and the South Caucasus. His broader interests cover regional conflicts, regionalism, international norms and foreign policy analysis.
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